John Smith wrote on Jun 21^st, 2021 at 5:23pm:


If the Ins Coy finds out unregistered electrical work has been done, the contract is null and void.

And, they look for that. They will find it .

John Smith wrote on Jun 25^th, 2021 at 6:37pm:


Yes, its always better to leave it until an electrician can eventually turn up.
Even if the house burns down in the meantime.

Changing out a powerpoint is hardly a job requiring electrical engineering qualifications.
But in your case, even changing a light globe would be be taxing you capabilities to the limit.

By the way, A simple poem for a simple person like you.
It may save you one day

Lefty loosy..righty tighty

Use it when ever you undo a screw, bolt can or bottle

I Know it will amaze you, but that's why you sometimes cannot open bottle of coke.

moron

I'm pretty sure it is the same for everywhere in Australia but here in WA you are not allowed to do any mains electrical work such as changing power points unless you are a licenced electrician.

A tenpin bowling centre I worked in as a tech many years ago used to get us to do things like changing power points and light fittings, etc. because they didn't want to pay for an electrician. We even did electrical work on the pinsetters' electrical boxes which had a 3 phase 415 volt input (which just ran the 3 phase motor, a transformer was then used for the 240, 115 and 24 volt 'secondaries' for other machine functions).

This all stopped when we pointed out to the management that, as John and Sprint have said, if there was an electrical fire and the building was badly damaged or destroyed their insurance would be null and void if the insurance company found that unlicenced electrical work had been done regardless of whether or not that work was responsible for the fire.

The other concern was (as the head tech and I talked about often) if there was a fire and the insurance company found unlicenced electrical work we were sure the management would have "ducked for cover" and denied any knowledge about asking us to do any electrical work and they would have blamed us (not that it would have "unvoided" their insurance policy).

We were sure the same thing would have happened if we'd been electrocuted doing unlicenced work (we all had a few 'zaps' over the years).

Carl D wrote on Jun 27^th, 2021 at 10:30am:



Looks nasty, but if you have opened any heavy machine electrical boxes, they mostly look pretty much like that when you get into them.
Especially the older ones.

Wiring for Lathes, Milling machines, shapers, mills, basically any heavy machinery is difficult.
There isnt a nice clean place to run wires and they tend to be placed wherever they can fit.
Older machines, Like the ones I worked on, had some seriously old style relays and even has wrapped wiring (those who know what I mean will understand).
They also suffer badly from heat, fluid ingress and sometimes overheating due to hard use.

One particular Russian made rolling mill was so bad we had to rewire it from front to back.
They only used two colours and sometimes it was very hard to work out what went where.
Took us a week, but afterward the operator said it had never worked as well.

People today are used to seeing nice pretty organised Computer style wiring (well neater than old control boxes).
Messy control boxes tend to frighten them a bit.
When operating, old mechanical relays spark and flash sometimes, that gets some of the less experienced ones jumping.

I've been working on this shite for over 40 years.
I have seen some of the most dangerous things you can imagine.
One 500 mm segmented wheel horizontal grinder start switch had been smashed.
I found them using bare wires to start up the grinder by intermittently touching the wires to each other until it got up to speed.
Linking them straight up would blow the fuse.
Then they simply hooked the wires around each other to keep it running.
It was three phase 415 for goodness sake.

Valkie wrote on Jun 27^th, 2021 at 9:31am:


Most electricians offer a 24 hr emergency service ya moron

Valkie wrote on Jun 27^th, 2021 at 9:31am:



Are you under some sort of impression that I write the rules?


I suspect, based on the stupidity you continually display on here, that the only engineering qualifications you have are how to engineer more bullshit stories.

Valkie wrote on Jun 27^th, 2021 at 5:15pm:



I call out bullshit when I see it ... if you get called out more than most it's because you bullshit more than most.

Valkie wrote on Jun 27^th, 2021 at 5:15pm:



you're not even better than my toenail, let alone the rest of me.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 25^th, 2021 at 6:18pm:
Can you show this? Relevant legislation etc.

rhino wrote on Jun 27^th, 2021 at 10:11pm:



why? you think if I name them you'll know them?

here, this is from Youi (an insurer)

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